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January 2022 The municipality of Bandeirantes (31,526 inhabitants in 2018; 44,762 ha) is
located 430 km north-west of Curitiba.
Bandeirantes was surveyed in 1920
by engineer Carlos Burrumei. On 24 December 1926, João Manuel dos Santos
acquired plots from Josefina Alves de Lima, owner of Fazenda Laranjinha, to
establish a settlement called Invernada (Wintering). João Cravo, Josefina's
associate, was also granted a plot. During the building of the Saõ Paulo-Paraná
railway, Azaria Vieira de Rezende established another settlement, Vila Rezende.
The district of Invernada was established, as part of the municipality of
Jacarezinho, on 12 April 1929 and inaugurated on 8 December 1929. In July 1930,
the Bandeirantes railway station was inaugurated 3 km away from Invernada. A
settlement emerged near the station, on a plot owned by Juvenal Mesquita. In
1932, officials commissioned by the Paraná government to visit the place stated
that Bandeirantes and Invernada were worth being united to form a new
municipality.
The municipality of Bandeirantes was established by State Law
No. 2,396 promulgated on 14 November 1934 and inaugurated on 5 January 1935.
Suppressed in 1938, the municipality was re-established two days later by State
Decree-Law No. 6,282 promulgated on 24 January 1938.
https://bandeirantes.pr.gov.br/
Municipal website
The flag of Bandeirantes is divided in eight
trapezoidal sectors formed by eight white stripes superimposed by red stripes
and a central black line, placed two by two in the horizontal and vertical
dimensions, per bend and per bend sinister, starting from a white rectangle
inscribing the coat of arms.
In compliance with the tradition of
Portuguese heraldry whose canons and rules were inherited by Brazilian heraldry,
municipal flags shall be divided in eight parts, featuring in the center the
town's coat of arms in full colors, and shall use the same colors as for the
shield's field. The coat of arms in the flag's center symbolizes the municipal
government while the rectangle on which it is applied represents the town
proper. The stripes symbolize the municipal power spreading all over the
municipal territory while the eight trapezoidal sectors they define represent
the rural estates scattered on the territory.
The coat of arms of
Bandeirantes has for heraldic description: Classic Flemish-Iberian shield
surmounted by an eight-towered mural crown argent. Vert divided in base by two
fesses wavy argent the effigy of a pioneer proper holding an harquebush. A chief
gules a hoe and an axe argent crossed in saltire. The shield supported dexter by
a coffee branch fructed proper and sinister by a sugarcane proper crossed in
base supporting a scroll gules inscribed in letters argent the motto "AUDÀCIA E
TRABALHO" surrounded by years "1926 - 1934".
The classic Flemish-Iberian
shield called "Portuguese shield" was selected to represent the arms of
Bandeirantes as evoking the colonizing race and main builder of the nation.
The mural crown that surmounts it is the symbol proper to domains' arms; with
eight towers argent, only five of them visible, it classifies a 2nd rank, that
is a county seat.
Vert (green) recalls soil's exuberance, the municipality's
main source of income. The fesses wavy represent rivers Cinza and Laranjinha
watering the municipal territory. The effigy of the pioneer ["bandeirante"]
makes the arms canting, evoking the name given to the town as a tribute to the
intrepid colonists, pioneers of the 20th century, who funded the settlement
subsequently converted into a town.
The chief gules, a color symbolizing
intrepidity, courage and valiance, features iconographical representations of
the arms used by the pioneers. The supporters symbolize the main crops offered
by the generous and fertile soil. The motto includes the words "Audacity",
proper to the pioneers, and "Labor", proper to people building the greatness of
their town.
https://bandeirantes.pr.gov.br/cidade/simbolo
Municipal website
Photos
https://www.facebook.com/PrefeituraDeBandeirantesPR/photos/845102182315675
https://www.facebook.com/PrefeituraDeBandeirantesPR/photos/845098978982662
https://www.facebook.com/PrefeituraDeBandeirantesPR/photos/694011364091425
https://www.facebook.com/PrefeituraDeBandeirantesPR/photos/693382044154357
Ivan Sache, 31 January 2022
